Overview

Robert Morgan is the author of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir and Dark Energy. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, was published in 2015. In addition he is the author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry; Boone: A Biography; and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, 2011. He has been awarded the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award Medal from the DAR. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Arts Council, he has served as visiting writer at Davidson College, Furman, Duke, Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, October 3, 1944, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English. At Cornell he has taught courses in American literature, modern poetry, autobiography, as well as poetry and fiction writing.

Research Focus

• American literature
• English poetry
• The twentieth century
• Creative writing, both poetry and fiction
• Narrative writing
• 19th century American poetry
• Contemporary British and American poetry
• American short story

In the news

• Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie to be celebrated in July 1 memorial
• Michael Koch, Epoch editor, remembered for ‘quiet grace’
• Pulitzer-winning writer and professor Alison Lurie dies at 94
• ‘Writers & Poets’ faculty reading series begins Nov. 30
• Writer, emeritus professor James McConkey dies at 98
• Influential writer, teacher Robert Morgan celebrated Oct. 3
• Highly-acclaimed authors visit for 2019 reading series
• Spring Zalaznick Reading Series exemplifies range of literary genres
• Robert Morgan to appear in History Channel docudrama
• Morgan receives award for newest novel
• A Natural Storyteller Talks about His Art

Overview

James Webster is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Music at Cornell University. He specializes in the history and theory of music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on Haydn. His other interests include Mozart (especially his operas), Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms, as well as performance practice, editorial practice, and the historiography of music; in theory he specializes in issues of musical form (including analytical methodology) and Schenkerian analysis. He was a founding editor of the journal Beethoven Forum, and was musicological consultant for the recordings of Haydn’s symphonies on original instruments, by the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood (Decca/L’oiseau-lyre). Among the many honors he has received are the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, a Fulbright dissertation grant, two Senior Research Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany).

Webster has also held teaching appointments at Columbia and Brandeis Universities and in Germany at Freiburg and Berlin (Humboldt University). He served as President of the American Musicological Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Joseph Haydn Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Johannes-Brahms-Gesamtausgabe, as well as a member of the editorial boards of the Cambridge Opera Journal and 18th-Century Music.

At Cornell, Webster’s undergraduate courses include an introduction to music theory for non-majors and various courses within the theory curriculum for majors, history courses for non-majors on Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and various history courses for majors. Among his graduate offerings are seminars on Haydn, Mozart’s operas, and nineteenth-century instrumental music and a survey of analytical technique and a seminar on Schenkerian analysis.

Overview

            I am a historian of France, specializing in the Revolutionary period, but I am broadly interested in European culture, politics, and ideas over the span of the long 18th century and in the interplay of ideas and culture between the metropole and the Caribbean colonies. My research and writing have been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and by visiting fellowships from the Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton).

              My first book, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell, 2002), explored parallel revolutions in politics and theater, detailing the ways in which the task of actors on both of these “stages” gradually shifted from a process of literal embodiment to one of abstract representation.

              My second book, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France (Oxford, 2012), explored transformations in the theory and practice of capital punishment from the spectacles of suffering in the Middle Ages to the invention and deployment of the guillotine during the Revolution. Although it focusses primarily on France, Seeing Justice Done is meant to be a reflection on the history of punishment and its relationship to contemporary sensibilities in the western world at large.

              I will soon be finishing a manuscript, which is tentatively entitled A Year Without Race: The Trans-Atlantic French Revolution and the Windward Islands of the Caribbean. This book explores how Revolutionary languages and practices travelled back and forth across the Atlantic and how a radical Jacobinism exported to the colonies at the height of the Terror was utilized and transformed by Caribbean historical actors of all colors and backgrounds.

              My next book, tentatively entitled Animals in the Age of Humanism, explores the evolution of the conception of animals in early modern European thought and how it laid the foundations for modern practices. I am particularly interested in studying the genealogy of the modern concept of “humane slaughter,” tracing its roots back to the writing of the early humanists, to the theorists of natural right, and to the rise of a culture of sensibility in early modern Britain and France.

              I teach classes on a range of subjects, from political culture to the history of ideas. Among the courses I have taught in the past few years are: The French Revolution, Great Trials (with Claudia Verhoeven), the Birth of Modern Thought, and Critics of Modernity. In the spring of 2022, I will be co-teaching Revolutions (with Jason Frank in the Government department). I have taught graduate seminars on the French Caribbean, the historiography of the French Revolution, and on the scholarship of Michel Foucault.

Research Focus

Publications

Selected Publications: 

“Every Island is not Haiti: The French Revolution in the Windward Islands” in Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World, edited by David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker (Oxford University Press, 2018)

“Friends for Dinner: ‘Humane Slaughter’ and the Early Modern Roots of Modern Carnivorous Sensibilities” in History of the Present, vol. 1, no. 1 (2011)

Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France (Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback, 2014)

Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2002; paperback, 2003). (Awarded the 2003 David Pinkney Prize)

In the news

• History, music faculty earn Guggenheim fellowships
• ‘Hill’ reporter, Tony-award winning director return to campus for talks

Overview

Sandra Siegel began her teaching career at Cornell in 1965 and served the department of English as Director of Graduate Studies as well. She is a specialist in Victorian literature, and has published a series of articles on Oscar Wilde. She taught and studies in Indonesia and in Ireland. Her awards include a Fulbright fellowship for study in Ireland, a Fulbright lectureship in Indonesia, a Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the National University of Ireland, and a Visiting lectureship at Peking University. She was also a winner of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Clark Award for the Preparation of Courses in the Humanities.

Research Focus

• English and Irish literary studies
• The politics of Anglo-Irish literary culture
• The social thought of the late nineteenth century
• The concept of “modernity” in the twentieth century
• Victorian literature

Overview

Riché Richardson, who was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, is a professor of African American literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, whose faculty she joined in 2008.  Her other areas of interest include American literature, American studies, black feminism, gender studies, Southern studies, cultural studies and critical theory.  She was the 2019-20 Olive B. O’Connor Visiting Distinguished Chair in English at Colgate University.  She graduated from Spelman College with a major in English and minors in philosophy and women’s studies in 1993.  She received her doctorate in American Literature from the English Department at Duke University in 1998, along with a Certificate in African and African American Studies.  She taught at the University of California, Davis from 1998-2008.  In 2001, she received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and spent the 2001-02 year in residence at the Johns Hopkins University.  She is a 2002 recipient of a Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship.  She served as the UC Davis campus representative for the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) from 2006-08 and received an award from the university for Diversity and the Principles of Community in 2008.  She is the 2016 recipient of the “Educator of the Year Award” from St. Jude Alumni & Friends, and in 2023, was among alumni featured on the first poster released in Montgomery artist Bill Ford’s series of drawings of important people and events in the history and legacy of The City of St. Jude.  She is a 2017 Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow with the Op-Ed Project whose pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Public Books and Huff Post.  Her interviews have been highlighted in news media such as NBC’s The Today Show and Nightly News, CNN, Al Jazeera’s Newshour, On Point Talk, Let’s Go There, the AP, NPR, the New York Times, Time, the BBC, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Forbes, Business Insider, Elle and French Elle, Good Housekeeping, Town and County, Insider, Essence, the Oprah Magazine, Black Press USA's Let It Be Known, the Montgomery Advertiser and WSFA TV News.  She served as the educator and collaborated with TED–Ed on the short animation “The Hidden Life of Rosa Parks”(2020). In 2017, Course Hero selected Richardson's "Beyoncé Nation" course as #8 among "14 Fun College Classes You Wish You Could Take." In 2021, Richardson was selected as #8 on Dismantle magazine's list of "8 Thinkers Who Influenced (How We Understand) Black History," for "being a groundbreaking, brilliant scholar" who does "beautifully interdisciplinary" work, as well as for her pivotal contributions to dialogues in the media advocating for the removal of the Aunt Jemima stereotype, which PepsiCo dropped in 2020 in the wake of the loss of George Floyd. 

She has produced over 40 essays published in journals such as American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, TransAtlantica, the Southern Quarterly, Black Camera, NKA, Phillis, Technoculture, Labrys and The Faulkner Journal, Early American Literature, and Studies in the Fantastic, along with edited collections. Her first books focus primarily on examining twentieth and twenty-first century texts in literature and culture and incorporate archival research materials.  Her first book, Black Masculinity and the U.S. South:  From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007), was selected by Choice Books among the "Outstanding Academic Titles of 2008," and by Eastern Book Company among the "Outstanding Academic Titles, Humanities, 2008."  Her new book, Emancipation's Daughters:  Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body, was published by Duke University Press in 2021, and is the winner of the 2022 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)..  She authored a new foreword for the 2018 edition of William Bradford Huie’s He Slew the Dreamer:  My Search for the Truth about James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King published by the University Press of Mississippi. She is now working on a new monograph, “Womanist Worlds:  New Southern Voices and Visions in African American Literature,” and a critical memoir. With Philathia Bolton, she is editor of the Routledge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature, which is under contract at Routledge. She edited the New Southern Studies Series at the University of Georgia Press from 2018-2022, a book series that has published 25 titles, and for which she has served as the co-editor since 2005, a role in which she now serves alongside Maurice Hobson. She serves on the External Advisory Board of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College.

Richardson is also a visual artist.  Her mixed-media appliqué art quilts were on public exhibition in solo shows at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery in 2008 and 2015, and have been included in several national exhibitions, including “Quilts for Obama” curated by Roland Freeman at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., in 2009.  They are the subject of a chapter in Patricia A. Turner’s Crafted Lives:  Stories and Studies of African American Quilters (2009), the short film A Portrait of the Artist (2008) by Anne Crémieux and Géraldine Chouard, and are featured in Lauren Cross’s film The Skin Quilt Project (2010).  Images of her art quilts have been published in catalogs and books and have illustrated articles in journals such as TransAtlantica and Transition.  In January of 2009, Richardson was invited to Paris as a “Cultural Envoy” by the U.S. Embassy in France through a grant from the U.S. Department of State in tandem with the national exhibition “Un Patchwork de Cultures,” and honored with a talk, reception, exhibition and film screening at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in the city.

Research Focus

“I continue to expand my research project grounded in questions related to the status of the U.S. South in shaping formations related to gender, race and sexuality in the U.S, and in shaping categories such as the American and the African American.  Since the publication of my first book, I have continued to develop my research on masculinity in some of my essays, while also examining such questions in relation to black femininity.  My second book manuscript examines ways in which black women have expanded the prevailing white- and male-centered national narratives in the U.S., notwithstanding black exclusion from notions of citizenship and democracy.  Though their national iconicity has been shadowed by stereotypes such as the ubiquitous example of Aunt Jemima, black women have challenged such images and helped to expand exclusionary definitions of the national body through their iconic political leadership models.  This book examines figures such as Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, and Michelle Obama across its four chapters, along with Beyoncé in the conclusion. Research from this book was foundational for developing the Op-Ed piece on Aunt Jemima that I was invited to write for the New York Times in 2015.  In 2016, I also drew on research from this book in an interview with the Associated Press on the question of featuring Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, which was cited in 375 media stories, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.  In 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, interviews on the Aunt Jemima brand’s removal by PepsiCo were featured in over 552 media outlets that reached over 1.5 billion, including NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News, Al Jazeera, and NPR, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and various other outlets. My research has contributed to areas such as Oprah studies and Beyoncé studies.  My new book projects build upon my research project by continuing to focus on black Southern women, while also contributing to the field of black girlhood studies.  I frequently draw on my research in my teaching, as evident in courses that I have developed in recent years such as ‘The Oprah Book Club and African American Literature,’ ‘New Black Southern Women Writers,’ and ‘Beyoncé Nation.’  My courses such as ‘The Willard Straight Occupation and the Legacy of Black Student Movement’ have increasingly incorporated community engagement and outreach.”

Publications

Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke University Press 2021)

“From the 'Summer of Faulkner' to Oprah's Obama: What We Can Learn from Joe Christmas and Miss      Jane Pittman."  “The Summer of Faulkner: Oprah’s Book Club, William Faulkner, and 21st Century America.”  Ed. Jaime Harker, Jay Watson, and Cecilia Konchar Farr.  The Mississippi Quarterly 3(2013): 459-486.

“Oprah’s Faulkner.”  Ed. Peter Lurie and Ann J. Abadie.  Faulkner and Film (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014), 120-145.

"'The Bed Intruder' - News Video Goes Viral: Antoine Dodson as Internet Celebrity and Commodity."  “On Gender and Sexuality.”  Ed. Amber Johnson.  Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society 4(2014) (online)

“Monumentalizing Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks in the Post-Civil Rights Era.”  “The Genius of Black Women: One Hundred Years of Triumph.”  Ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Paula Giddings.  Phillis: The Journal for Research on African American Women 2:1 (2014): 23-30.

“Framing Rosa Parks in Reel Time.”  Southern Quarterly 4(2013): 54-65.

“Push, Precious and New Narratives of Slavery and Harlem.”  Black Camera 4(2012): 161-180.

In the news

• ‘Not her first rodeo’: Beyoncé scholar weighs in on ‘Cowboy Carter’
• Scholar to speak on intersectional justice at annual MLK lecture
• Riché Richardson receives literary society award
• From breaking to Beyoncé: Hip Hop Collection empowers students
• Passage of ERA legislation ‘long overdue’
• Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts
• MLK's 1960s visits to Cornell still resonate today
• Juneteenth marks emancipation’s progress and delay
• Students engage with NYC Black ‘memory workers’ in Mellon seminar
• What to read in 2022? A&S faculty weigh in
• Natalie Wolchover named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for Spring 2022
• Panel: Pandemic and protests laid economic injustices bare
• ‘Emancipation’s Daughters’ celebrates five iconic Black women
• Final ‘Racism in America’ webinar on April 27 to focus on our economic system
• Cornell community honors Toni Morrison with “The Bluest Eye” reading
• Authors, poets, scholars celebrate Morrison in ‘Bluest Eye’ reading & teach-in
• Considerations about language and presenting ‘The Bluest Eye:’ A critical discussion
• Richardson explores Rosa Parks’ life in new animated video
• MIT prof. visits to talk about slavery, education
• Literary icon Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, dies at 88
• Reflections on the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, 50 years later
• Africana Center to honor founder at 50th anniversary symposium
• Riché Richardson: from surgery to recovery to hope
• Top music industry expert speaks Sept. 27
• Nine Arts and Sciences faculty chosen as 2017 Public Voices Fellows
• Engaged Art and Its Critique

Overview

I am a Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior. My training was at Stanford University (A.B., Ph.D. in Genetics, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurochemistry) and Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurophysiology). I have been at Cornell since 1980. My major research interests are in the mechanisms underlying the generation of flexibility in behavior. We focus on simple model systems to understand how neurotransmitters can reconfigure anatomically defined behavioral neural networks to provide flexibility in rhythmic behaviors. We are now beginning to study the neural networks for locomotion in the spinal cord, and the changes that spinal cord injury causes in those networks.

Research Focus

The Harris-Warrick lab is studying the cellular and synaptic mechanisms that shape network function and motor output from Central Pattern Generator circuits.  CPGs are limited networks that generate the timing, phasing and intensity commands for simple rhythmic movements such as locomotion and respiration.  They are anatomically fixed, but can generate variable motor behaviors through changes in network interactions, due to sensory inputs, descending brain inputs, and the actions of neuromodulators such as serotonin and dopamine.  Neuromodulators can shape the output from these networks by altering the strengths of the synapses between the component neurons (thus quantitatively “rewiring” the network)and by altering the intrinsic firing properties of the neurons so that their interpretation of synaptic inputs and decisions to spike are fundamentally altered.  These actions allow flexibility in our behaviors, even though they are generated by anatomically defined networks.      

Our current work studies the CPG for hindlimb locomotion, located in the lumbar region of the spinal cord in the mouse.  We are currently studying three major questions in this system:

            1) Identification of the interneurons that are components of the CPG, and of their synaptic connections, to better understand the organization of the locomotor CPG.  This work involves electrophysiological studies of genetically defined interneurons and their synapses, combined with mathematical modeling of their interactions, in collaboration with Dr Ilya Rybak (Drexel University).
            2) Modulation by serotonin of the properties and synapses of identified neurons in the mouse spinal locomotor CPG, to better understand how serotonin can reconfigure the network to prepare it for locomotion.
            3) Changes in the intrinsic properties, synaptic  interactions, and responses to serotonin of identified interneurons in the mouse locomotor CPG after spinal cord injury (SCI). SCI results in loss of descending inputs to the CPG from the brain, including modulatory inputs that release serotonin and other modulators.  Even though the CPG neurons are not themselves damaged by the typical CPG, this loss of inputs results in changes in neuronal function that can affect the ability to walk again. 

In the news

• Just say know! talk describes effects of drugs on the brain
• Critique, compassion are 'Side by Side' in Biennial artist's work
• $2.7 million grant expands Arts & Sciences Active Learning Initiative

Overview

Kadji Amin is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Amin is a materialist theorist of gender and sexuality. His research and teaching bring empirical scholarship on the history of sexuality and on gender and sexual variance in the Global South to bear on queer and trans theory. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in “Sex” from the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum (2015-16) and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University (2015). His first book, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History (Duke 2017) won an Honorable Mention for best book in LGBT studies form the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Disturbing Attachments deidealizes Jean Genet’s coalitional politics with the Black Panthers and the Palestinians by foregrounding their animation by unsavory and outdated modes of attachment, including pederasty, racial fetishism, nostalgia for prison, and fantasies of queer terrorism. Amin has published articles in journals including TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Social Text, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, and Representations. He is the coeditor, with Amber Jamilla Musser and Roy Pérez, of a special issue of ASAP/Journal on “Queer Form.” He serves on the Editorial Board for TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and Gender and Women’s Studies and is the State of the Field Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 

Research Focus

Trans Materialism without Gender Identity rethinks the foundations of contemporary transgender politics and scholarship by arguing that the concept of gender identity is a fiction that has historically done transgender people more harm than good. Gender identity, it demonstrates, was devised by midcentury US psychiatry to discipline the boundaries of legitimate transgender being. Historically, the effect of gender identity has been to privatize transness as an interior identity congruent with liberal and neoliberal forms of governance. With the definition of gender identity as a protected human right by the Yogyakarta Principles in 2007, this concept is now being extended as a basis for governance globally. However, historically in the West and currently in the non-West, most gender-variant people have not needed gender identity to transition or be recognized.

Methodologically inspired by the combination of historical materialist theory and macro-history of Silvia Federici and Christopher Chitty,[1] Trans Materialism without Gender Identity theorizes patterns across transgender medicine, online LGBTQ+ discourse, the history of sexuality, and the anthropology of sexuality. This method demonstrates that, both historically and globally, gender identity structurally abandons those transfeminine people whose cultures are too public, too sexual, too social, and too shaped by labor to be privatized as individual identities. Defining “materialism” with reference to both the political economy and the materiality of gendered bodies and behaviors, Trans Materialism argues that transgender theory and politics must be materialist if they are to contend with the harms that face the most vulnerable transgender populations.

[1] Federici, Silvia. 2004. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, New York: Autonomedia; Chitty, Christopher. 2020. Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. Edited by Max Fox. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. I find Federici’s approach to reproductive labor useful despite the trans-exclusionary turn of her latest book, Beyond the Periphery of the Skin (2019).

In the news

• Community event will showcase trans philosophy and scholarship

Overview

Channeling the potent rhythms of the storytellers who raised her in Zimbabwe, NoViolet Bulawayo weaves stories that are at once disarmingly playful and devastatingly real.  Her debut novel, We Need New Names, identified her as one of the great storytellers of displacement and arrival. “Nearly as incisive about the American immigrant experience as it is about the failings of Mugabe’s regime” (NPR), it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize—marking the first time a Black woman from Africa received this recognition— and won the PEN/Hemingway Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and many other honors. With her second novel Glory, Bulawayo establishes herself as a new and essential voice in the fiction of the contemporary African diaspora. Inspired by the 2017 coup that ousted Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s leader of nearly four decades, the novel is a "a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny” (The New York Times Book Review), populated by a chorus of animals who unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination. Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory resonates in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression and giving voice to the bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. The most translated author in modern Zimbabwean history, Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe and earned her MFA from Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She has also held fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford.

Overview

Dr. Reid is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Reid completed his residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and fellowships in both clinical epidemiology and geriatric medicine at Yale University. Dr. Reid is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Scholar and a Paul Beeson Faculty Scholar on Aging Research. He joined the faculty of Weill Cornell in January 2003.

Board Certifications

• American Board of Internal Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine (Geriatric Medicine)
• American Board of Internal Medicine (Hospice and Palliative Medicine)

Clinical and Academic Positions

• Attending Physician - NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
• Professor of Medicine - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
• Irving Sherwood Wright Professor in Geriatrics I - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

Research Focus

Dr. Reid's research is directed towards improving the management of pain among older persons. Current projects include testing non-pharmacologic strategies for pain among older persons in both clinical and non-clinical settings, identifying barriers to the use of self-management strategies for pain, and examining optimal strategies for managing pain across ethnically diverse populations of older persons. Additional areas of interest include the epidemiology and treatment of substance use disorders in older persons.

Publications

• Racial-ethnic disparities in pain intensity and interference among middle-aged and older U.S. adults.  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences.  2021 Academic Article
• Prescription Opioids Dispensed to Patients with Cancer with Bone Metastasis: 2011-2017.  The oncologist.  2021 Academic Article 
• Robust Prescription Monitoring Programs and Abrupt Discontinuation of Long-term Opioid Use.  American journal of preventive medicine.  2021 Academic Article 
• Healthcare Provider Perspectives Regarding Use of Medical Interpreters During End-of-Life Conversations With Limited English Proficient Patients.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2021 Academic Article 
• Characteristics of Provider-Focused Research on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Palliative Care: A Scoping Review.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2021 Academic Article 
• Quality of opioid prescribing in older adults with or without Alzheimer disease and related dementia.  Alzheimer's research & therapy.  2021 Academic Article 
• Suffering and Symptoms At the End of Life in ICU Patients Undergoing Renal Replacement Therapy.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2021 Academic Article 
• The Prevalence and Potential Role of Pain Beliefs When Managing Later-Life Pain.  The Clinical journal of pain.  2020 Academic Article 
• Abrupt Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Therapies Among Privately Insured or Medicare Advantage Adults, 2011-2017.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2020 Academic Article 
• Patient reactions to witnessed medical events in the dialysis center or to the sudden absence of other patients from the center: A qualitative study.  Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis.  2020 Academic Article 
• Caregiver-Reported Quality Measures and Their Correlates in Home Hospice Care.  Palliative medicine reports.  2020 Academic Article 
• Getting Along in Assisted Living: Quality of Relationships Between Family Members and Staff.  The Gerontologist.  2020 Academic Article 
• Associations between unmet palliative care needs and cognitive impairment in a sample of diverse, community-based older adults.  Palliative & supportive care.  2020 Academic Article
• Positive affect and chronic pain: a preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis.  Pain.  2020 Academic Article
  Times cited: 4
• Hyperactive Delirium Requires More Aggressive Management in Patients With COVID-19: Temporarily Rethinking "Low and Slow".  Journal of pain and symptom management.  2020 Article
  Times cited: 3
• Multidimensional Pain Assessment Tools for Ambulatory and Inpatient Nursing Practice.  Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses.  2020 Academic Article
• Do Decision Aids Benefit Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain? A Systematic Review.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2020 Academic Article
  Times cited: 4
• Managing patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 outbreak: considerations for the rapid introduction of remotely supported (eHealth) pain management services.  Pain.  2020 Academic Article
  Times cited: 97
• Pain-Related Drug Use Among Older Adults With Activity Limiting Pain Who Received Home Care Services.  Home healthcare now. 2020 Academic Article
• Further Examination of the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaires Among Chronic Low Back Pain Patients: Long-Term Predictive Validity of Pretreatment and Posttreatment Change Scores and Stability of Posttreatment Scores.  The Clinical journal of pain. 2020  Letter 
• A Pain eHealth Platform for Engaging Obese, Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain in Nonpharmacological Pain Treatments: Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility Study.  JMIR research protocols.  2020 Academic Article 
• Linking Persistent Pain and Frailty in Older Adults.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2020 Academic Article 
• Identifying the Prevalence and Correlates of Caregiver-Reported Symptoms in Home Hospice Patients at the End of Life.  Journal of palliative medicine.  2019 Academic Article 
• Assessing the palliative care needs and service use of diverse older adults in an urban medically-underserved community.  Annals of palliative medicine.  2019 Academic Article 
• Missed Opportunities When Communicating With Limited English-Proficient Patients During End-of-Life Conversations: Insights From Spanish-Speaking and Chinese-Speaking Medical Interpreters.  Journal of pain and symptom management.  2019 Academic Article
  Times cited: 5
• Further Examination of the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaires Among Chronic Low Back Pain Patients: Long-term Predictive Validity of Pretreatment and Posttreatment Change Scores and Stability of Posttreatment Scores.  The Clinical journal of pain.  2019 Academic Article 
  Times cited: 2
• Advanced cancer patients' understanding of prognostic information: Applying insights from psychological research.  Cancer medicine. 2019 Review 
  Times cited: 6
• Likelihood of depressive symptoms in US older adults by prescribed opioid potency: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2013.  International journal of geriatric psychiatry.  2019 Academic Article 
  Times cited: 4
• Prevalence, Severity, and Correlates of Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression at the Very End of Life.  Journal of pain and symptom management.  2019 Academic Article 
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• Perceptions of a Home Hospice Crisis: An Exploratory Study of Family Caregivers.  Journal of palliative medicine.  2019 Academic Article 
• Establishing the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a multi-component behavioral intervention to reduce pain and substance use and improve physical performance in older persons living with HIV.  Journal of substance abuse treatment.  2019 Academic Article 
• Establishing the Feasibility of a Tablet-Based Consent Process with Older Adults: A Mixed-Methods Study.  The Gerontologist.  2019 Academic Article 
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• Palliative care for case managers: building capacity to extend community-based palliative care to underserved older adults.  Gerontology & geriatrics education.  2018 Academic Article 
• Feasibility and Acceptability of Mobile Phone-Based Auto-Personalized Physical Activity Recommendations for Chronic Pain Self-Management: Pilot Study on Adults.  Journal of medical Internet research.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Daily factors driving daily substance use and chronic pain among older adults with HIV: An exploratory study using ecological momentary assessment.  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.).  2018 Academic Article 
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• Can Multidimensional Pain Assessment Tools Help Improve Pain Outcomes in the Perianesthesia Setting?.  Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Prevalence rates of arthritis among US older adults with varying degrees of depression: Findings from the 2011 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.  International journal of geriatric psychiatry.  2018 Academic Article
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• First Opioid Prescription and Subsequent High-Risk Opioid Use: a National Study of Privately Insured and Medicare Advantage Adults.  Journal of general internal medicine.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Improving implementation of psychological interventions to older adult patients with cancer: Convening older adults, caregivers, providers, researchers.  Journal of geriatric oncology. 2018 Conference Paper 
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• Sensitivity to Physical Activity: Identifying Important Predictors and Outcomes in Pain-Free Older Adults Using a Simple Activity-Related Measure.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2018 Editorial Article 
• Bridging the Gap Between Aging Research and Practice: A New Strategy for Enhancing the Consensus Workshop Model.  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2018 Academic Article 
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• Establishing a Research Agenda on Mobile Health Technologies and Later-Life Pain Using an Evidence-Based Consensus Workshop Approach.  The journal of pain.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Mobile Health Technology Is Here-But Are Hospice Informal Caregivers Receptive?.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2018 Academic Article
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• Association Between Psychological Interventions and Chronic Pain Outcomes in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.  JAMA internal medicine. 2018 Review
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• Developing mHealth Applications for Older Adults with Pain: Seek Out the Stakeholders!.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2018 Editorial Article
• The Potential Role for Smartphones Among Older Adults with Chronic Noncancer Pain: A Qualitative Study.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 2018 Academic Article 
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• Identifying Palliative Care Needs Among Older Adults in Nonclinical Settings.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2018 Academic Article 
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• It Is Not What You Think: Associations Between Perceived Cognitive and Physical Status and Prognostic Understanding in Patients With Advanced Cancer.  Journal of pain and symptom management.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Mild cognitive dysfunction of caregivers and its association with care recipients' end-of-life plans and preferences.  PloS one.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Mobile health technology and home hospice care: promise and pitfalls.  Progress in palliative care.  2018 Academic Article
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• Decision Support for Joint Replacement: Implications for Decisional Conflict and Willingness to Undergo Surgery.  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Associations between Mild Cognitive Dysfunction and End-of-Life Outcomes in Patients with Advanced Cancer.  Journal of palliative medicine.  2018 Academic Article 
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• Development of a Community-Based Palliative Care Screening Tool for Underserved Older Adults With Chronic Illnesses.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2018 Academic Article
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• Moving Beyond Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign and Patient Satisfaction Scores to Improve Pain Care in the 21st Century.  Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses. 2017 Review 
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• Palliative Care Providers' Practices Surrounding Psychological Distress Screening and Treatment: A National Survey.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2017 Academic Article 
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• The Impact of Older Parents' Pain Symptoms on Adult Children.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2017 Academic Article 
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• Examining the Role of Primary Care Physicians and Challenges Faced When Their Patients Transition to Home Hospice Care.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2017 Academic Article
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• Knowledge of Palliative Care Among Community-Dwelling Adults.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2017 Academic Article
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• Palliative Care Gaps in Providing Psychological Treatment: A Review of the Current State of Research in Multidisciplinary Palliative Care.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2017 Academic Article 
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• Physical, Emotional, and Social Impacts of Restricting Back Pain in Older Adults: A Qualitative Study.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2017 Academic Article 
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• Awareness and Misperceptions of Hospice and Palliative Care: A Population-Based Survey Study.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2017 Academic Article 
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• The Abrams geriatric self-neglect scale: introduction, validation and psychometric properties.  International journal of geriatric psychiatry.  2017 Academic Article 
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• Expanding palliative care's reach in the community via the elder service agency network.  Annals of palliative medicine.  2017 Academic Article 
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• Pain and Function in Home Care: A Need for Treatment Tailoring to Reduce Disparities?.  The Clinical journal of pain.  2017 Academic Article 
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• Association Between Nursing Visits and Hospital-Related Disenrollment in the Home Hospice Population.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2017 Academic Article 
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• Implementing a Pain Self-Management Protocol in Home Care: A Cluster-Randomized Pragmatic Trial.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  2017 Academic Article 
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• Improvement in Pain After Lumbar Spine Surgery: The Role of Preoperative Expectations of Pain Relief.  The Clinical journal of pain.  2017 Academic Article
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• Multicomponent Palliative Care Interventions in Advanced Chronic Diseases: A Systematic Review.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care. 2016 Review 
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• Expanding Targets for Intervention in Later Life Pain: What Role Can Patient Beliefs, Expectations, and Pleasant Activities Play?.  Clinics in geriatric medicine. 2016 Review 
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• Risk Factors for Hospitalization of Home Hospice Enrollees Development and Validation of a Predictive Tool.  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  2016 Academic Article 
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• More with Less: A Trial of Reduced-Intensity Treatment in Transplant-Ineligible Hemodialysis Patients.  Journal of palliative medicine.  2016 Academic Article 
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• Measurement Equivalence of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System® (PROMIS®) Pain Interference Short Form Items: Application to Ethnically Diverse Cancer and Palliative Care Populations.  Psychological test and assessment modeling.  2016 Academic Article GET IT
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• Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life.  JAMA oncology.  2015 Academic Article 
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• Disparities in symptom burden and renal transplant eligibility: a pilot study.  Journal of palliative medicine.  2013 Academic Article 
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• Implementing a cognitive-behavioral pain self-management program in home health care, part 2: feasibility and acceptability cohort study.  Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001).  2013 Academic Article 
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• A brief educational intervention to teach residents shared decision making in the intensive care unit.  Journal of palliative medicine.  2013 Academic Article 
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• Temporal horizons in pain management: understanding the perspectives of physicians, physical therapists, and their middle-aged and older adult patients.  The Gerontologist.  2012 Academic Article 
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• Chronic pain perspectives: Managing chronic pain in older adults: 6 steps to overcoming medication barriers.  The Journal of family practice.  2012 Academic Article 
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• The risk of comorbidity.  Annals of the rheumatic diseases.  2012 Article 
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• Primary care providers' perspective on prescribing opioids to older adults with chronic non-cancer pain: a qualitative study.  BMC geriatrics. 2011 Review 
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• Postoperative delirium in elderly patients after elective hip or knee arthroplasty performed under regional anesthesia.  HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery.  2011 Academic Article 
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• Hospital do-not-resuscitate orders: why they have failed and how to fix them.  Journal of general internal medicine. 2011 Review 
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• Psychological resilience predicts decreases in pain catastrophizing through positive emotions.  Psychology and aging.  2010 Academic Article 
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• Outcomes associated with opioid use in the treatment of chronic noncancer pain in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  2010 Academic Article 
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• Directly observed patient-physician discussions in palliative and end-of-life care: a systematic review of the literature.  Journal of palliative medicine. 2010 Review 
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• Preparing to implement a self-management program for back pain in new york city senior centers: what do prospective consumers think?.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2010 Academic Article 
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• Fast forward rounds: an effective method for teaching medical students to transition patients safely across care settings.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  2009 Academic Article 
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• A Community-Based Participatory Critique of Social Isolation Intervention Research for Community-Dwelling Older Adults.  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society.  2009 Academic Article 
• Physical therapists' use of cognitive-behavioral therapy for older adults with chronic pain: a nationwide survey.  Physical therapy.  2009 Academic Article 
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• Identifying factors affecting utilization of an inpatient palliative care service: a physician survey.  Journal of palliative medicine. 2009 Review
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• Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation at the end of life: a physician survey.  American heart journal.  2009 Academic Article 
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• Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among older adults receiving home delivered meals.  International journal of geriatric psychiatry.  2008 Academic Article 
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• Pitfalls and recommendations regarding the management of acute pain among hospitalized patients with dementia.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2008 Academic Article 
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• The association of sexual trauma with persistent pain in a sample of women veterans receiving primary care.  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.).  2008 Academic Article 
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• Elderly Indo-Caribbean Hindus and end-of-life care: a community-based exploratory study.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  2008 Academic Article 
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Overview

Carolyn Goelzer was a Minneapolis-based theater artist for more than 25 years, performing roles in most Twin Cities theaters (the Guthrie, Jungle Theater, Children’s Theatre, Illusion etc.) as well as stages on Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and L.A.  She received a NY Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role for her portrayal of Clytemnestra in Theodora Skipitares’ IPHIGENIA at LaMama ETC in NYC. She is a three-time recipient of the McKnight Individual Artist Fellowship (in Playwriting; Interdisciplinary Arts; and Theater Arts categories) and a Core alumna of the Playwrights’ Center. An actor in Cornell’s RPTA program from 2005-2008, she now teaches acting in PMA.

Research Focus

Carolyn is a 2016 Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Faculty Fellow and is currently writing a new theater work about a young woman raised in a poison garden, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story Rappaccini’s Daughter.

In the news

• Question authority, beware false prophets in “Tartuffe”
• “The Awakening of Spring” sheds light on chasm between youth and adults
• PMA professor produces political cabaret Feb. 19